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Activity for AA
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A: Shehecheyanu on Purim You've misunderstood the announcement. All the blessings on the megilla reading are for the megilla reading. Each reading is a mitzva and gets blessings. Some communities view the daytime reading as a higher level obligation and say shehechiyanu on it too. There are no blessings on the other purim... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
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A: (How) does the home gardener tithe? > How do you establish valuation -- compare to what's for sale in the grocery store? The other answer and plenty of online resources discuss the lists of what portions to designate and in what order. You can basically just read a set text that takes care of all the designating. Then everything is ... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Why do we destroy t'rumah and challah instead of giving it to a kohein? The issue is not that the priest is impure as much as the food is impure. Even a pure priest cannot eat impure holy food from Israel, but any priest can benefit from it (either by burning it for warmth or feeding it to his animals). Accordingly you can and should give all your holy food portions to a... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Is it preferable to not say Mincha early on a fast day? Regarding your concern about Anenu for the Ashkenazi practice of omitting it in the morning lest you come to eat, the Magen Avraham (Orach Chaim 565:3) felt that was not a problem even at an early mincha because Rama ruled (Orach Chaim 562:1) that Anenu can be said (in certain circumstances) on a par... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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A: Avinu Malkeinu as part of Tachanun Rambam, Mishneh Torah, Prayer and the Priestly Blessing, 5 > שמונה דברים, צריך המתפלל להיזהר בהן ולעשותן; ואם היה דחוק, או נאנס, או שעבר ולא עשה אותן--אינן מעכבין. ואלו הן--עמידה, ונוכח המקדש, ותיקון הגוף, ותיקון המלבוש, ותיקון המקום, והשווית הקול, והכריעה, וההשתחוויה. עמידה כיצד: אין מתפללין א... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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A: What is our policy regarding using non-English languages in a post? Questions about Judaism written in Hebrew could potentially find a home in a Hebrew category as described at https://judaism.codidact.com/questions/276362#answer-276423 Roughly half of Jews speak Hebrew. Let's welcome them to the community. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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A: What is our policy regarding using non-English languages in a post? People should be allowed to post questions in Hebrew if they want. How that affects how many potential answerers engage with their question is just a consequence of that choice. A great question is engaging to the largest audience, but mediocre questions are allowed. If someone is only comfortable... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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A: Asking questions that have answers on MY? If the same question is already on Mi Yodeya and it hasn't for whatever reason been imported yet, you should request it be imported. This may take a day or two to process for now but it helps keep everything clean and organized. New eyes here can then build on the previous work of others instead of s... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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A: Should imported posts retain their original votes? What distinguishes us from a blog is mostly the scores on the posts. That's one of our main advantages for people seeking quality content: they have a rough measure of the average interested internet user's opinion of the post. We are going to import content. To throw away useful information about... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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A: Welcome to our new pro-tem moderators! Good choices! May God bless and keep the trolls far away from them. Amen. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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A: Are questions purely about Hebrew in-scope? We should allow any Hebrew, Ladino, Yiddish, Judeo-Arabic questions with no restrictions, even ones that clearly have nothing at all to do with Judaism as chances are we won't get so many of them to create problems. Handling the few that we get and knowing we explicitly allow non-Judaism content on a... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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A: What content do we want to import from Mi Yodeya? I don't see why we would throw out the old vote counts. If a few people gain a few extra points on a one time basis, that's not such a big deal. The advantage gained by having good signal about post quality, more Google hits to attract people to the site, and the ability to duplicate out many basic q... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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A: Are questions purely about Hebrew in-scope? One solution is a Hebrew Language category. See here. Potentially all your examples would be in scope in that category. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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A: Categories - Divrei Torah, Purim Torah I propose a category called Hebrew Language. This could be for anyone studying the language, whether Biblical or Modern or anything in between. No Judaism connection would be needed for questions in that category. Perhaps פוסטס קוד בי ריטין אין הברו אז וול. There is much overlap between Judaism... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |